Asia

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her. 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese ...

In Bangkok, two brothers run a Thai boxing club that serves as a front for their drug trafficking operation. The older brother murders a young girl.

A melancholy story set in Hong Kong in 1962. A woman and a man who live in the same crowded apartment building discover that their husband and wife are ...

A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.

Family man Toshio leads a quiet life with wife Akie and daughter Hotaru. When his old friend Yasaka is released from prison, he takes him in.

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

Amami-Oshima Island in Japan. A 14-year-old boy finds a body floating in the sea. He asks his girlfriend for help.

Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release ...

The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.

In the Philippines, women get deployed abroad to work as domestic workers or nannies. In one of the many training centers dedicated to domestic work, a ...

Indochina, 1945: Soldier Robert Tassen survives the massacre that killed his brother. Blinded by revenge, he rejoins the forces in search of the assassins. Indochina-war, ...

Two priests search for their mentor in Japan, a mysterious country, a place where both their religion and their very presence are forbidden.

A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and ...

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the ...

Thirtysomething Chinese-born Lina borrows money to move to Paris to save up money to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams, leaving behind her husband and ...

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”).

Architect Thana is feeling disillusioned when he stumbles upon an elephant from his childhood. They set out to rediscover their shared past.

Two worlds colliding for the best. The children of Phnom Penh scavenging the dump-site to survive and a recently retired couple discovering Cambodia. This ...

Chantal Akerman weaves a haunting tale of greed, alienation, and cultural dissonance, reimagining Joseph Conrad’s 1895 novel into the 20th century.

Death row convict Jang Jin attempts to hasten his death sentence by stabbing himself in the neck with a sharpened toothbrush, only to fail miserably, (...) Death ...

A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to a dark consequences. Eun-yi is a playful young woman, a good match for a job as nanny to a precocious ...

Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2009. In a recruitment Centre, women undergo training to become maids. They learn how to use a microwave, how to be polite, their ...

The movie shows Pacific War through concentration Japanese camps where Lydia Chagoll was interned. From Pacific War, we only remember the Japanese attack ...

Laos owns one of the last primary forests in Asia. For several years, thousands of hectares of this ancestral forest have been brought down and replaced ...

The film starts in Nalaikh where old Mongolchaan is one of the many former miners who - after the closure of the mine - continues digging for coal in order ...

In Ulan Bator, Mongolia, the cur Baatar is shot by a hunter hired by the authorities to get rid off the dogs in the city...

Epic fantasy-adventure meets martial arts action in this thrilling film written by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen. After a mysterious chest opens a gateway ...

As Americans occupy their country, young Afghans dig up old Soviet mines to sell the explosives to other children.

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. A ...